I've not had anything to do with this thread?

I have sold a different make TC (Jessops) to someone enquiring about it
under another thread link. I asked what lens it was for
at 8am yesterday. It wasn't enquired about until 11pm last night after
the buyer had done a bit of research.

It was actually you who came peddling your overpriced TC
in the other thread at 10 pm last night adding a very
cocky remark "According to this thread that is
all down to user error and not the lens." which referred
to an answer that I'd given. You also entered a cocky
remark relating to me in a thread about kitchens
which I had nothing to do with. The thread was later deleted.
I have no idea why you have decided to troll/bully me?

I sold the TC for what I was going to advertise it for here in the
classifieds today anyway £140 inc. postage which is about the value
of it. It's not as though I undercut the market value. Would you
have also complained about that.

Sorry but you don't have exclusive rights to sell stuff on here.
There are many adds for the same product all at different prices
eg. K-5's.

Nothing to stop two people emailing one another and coming to
an amicable agreement over selling or exchanging gear.

You seemed to have snook in and grabbed the 250-600mm from
under someone's nose in this thread. Was it the same person
you had words with in this forum.

You seem to be kicking up a fuss over absolutely nothing.


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This might help..... link

Have a look where the seller registered from. If it's China
it's probably fake. If UK and listed as Genuine Reseller it's
possibly OK.

The copies are that good they probably work the same as the
originals, but it's always safer to buy an original.



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Did you buy this direct from Amazon in which case it will be
genuine. There are a lot of fakes about, inc. on Amazon and
ebay.

I've just been onto the importers about 3 sellers on ebay selling fakes
for about £20 and they are going to get ebay to remove them, but
they will be back again under a different name.

For photography use I like the look of the Coast HP7 flood setting.
It seems to be based on the LED Lenser design.
Coast originally sold re-badged LED Lensers.

http://www.coastportland.com/gb/hp7-led-flashlight.htm

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That's why I use candles!

Just checked with my 55-300mm. If I just point it at something
at 300mm and the image is very blurry and I can't make out what the
image is... the camera can't either so it defaults to winding
in to 4.6M and then back out again towards INF until it hits
something in focus. It's not hunting just winding in then out, this is quite slow because of the long focus throw.

If I just point it at something that is recognisable by me through
the viewfinder the camera recognises it as well so it focuses in
whatever direction it needs to go until it hits focus. It's quite
fast and doesn't hunt.

If I set the lens to infinity, the object may not be recognisable
but the default INF to 4.6M picks up the object very quickly
locks focus and doesn't hunt.

With Quickshift it's easy enough to keep the lens ready set at INF
or just roughly bring the object into focus. The camera then locks
focus very quickly with no hunting. Focus only takes
a fraction of a second.

Without Quickshift either focus just beyond the subject first or
focus on INF. Some hunting will be unavoidable.

Obviously with such a good lens the version with Quickshift
is worth the extra.

The Jessop 1.7x TC is actually about 1.54X at 5M
The Pentax 1.7X AF Adapter is 1.7X at 5M

The 1.4x and 1,5x Kenko TC's aren't really much use with
the 55-300mm

The Pentax 1.4X-S is MF only, but works well with the
55-300mm


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It also allows you to get in close, although this was the 55-300mm at
120mm + TC




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Jessop 1.7x TC also works well with the Sigma 150-500mm.

That shot was straight from a JPG although I took RAW as well.

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The 55-300mm works very well with a TC.
This was at about 280mm + TC Handheld K-5 200ISO




Edit: Just noticed you have the 55-300mm that hasn't
got Quickshift, in which case I would change the lens
first for the more expensive version otherwise it
huns for focus quite a bit. It's better to set the focus
at infinity before using AF

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What lens do you want to use it with?

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Looks a good spec. and if the flood is as good as the demo
video it should be a handy torch. I notice on one of the
reviews that it's at 80% when you switch on.... you have
to press a few times for 100%.

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